Part 15

HC 2523 Pr 8722 Pell 1887 1494,Sep.18 Toulouse Mayer 1556 Toledo De Avila B.M.

English Version by John of Trevisa in 1397

HC 2520 Pr 9725 n.d. Westminster W. de Worde [c.1495] 1535 London Berthelet B.M. 1582 London East B.M.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

The first edition of this selection was published at London in 1893.

The 1535 edition has 8 unpaged leaves (title, table, prologue, and Book I.), 338 numbered leaves, and printer's mark of Lucretia. The following errors in pagination are noted: 181 for 189, 197 for 187, 201 for 200, 203 for 201, 211 for 209.

The chief point of interest in the Bibliography is the question raised by Wynkyn de Worde's positive statement in his edition in his epilogue:

And also of your charyte call to remembraunce The soule of William Caxton first prynter of this boke In latin tonge at Coleyn hymself to avaunce That every well disposyd man may theron loke And John Tate the yonger Joy mote he broke Which late hathe in Englond doo make this paper thynne That now in our Englyssh this boke is prynted Inne.

Mr. Gordon Duff is disposed to think that Caxton may have worked on the undated Cologne edition (H.C. *2498), which must in that case be put before 1476, finding a link between his Bruges type and the Cologne presses in a work printed at Louvain in 1475 which contains type of both descriptions.

Most of these editions are in the British Museum. The copy of the Berthelet edition there has an autograph of Shakespeare in it--one of the Ireland forgeries.

GLOSSARY

Accord, n., harmony According, part., punning, or in harmony Adamant, n., a diamond Addercop, n., a spider Afeard, part., affrighted Afore, prep., before Almery, n., a cupboard, a buttery Anon, adv., immediately Apaid, v., served, repaid Apaired, adj., injured, impaired Areared, adj., upright Assay, v., to try Aught, n., anything Avisement, n., forethought, counsel Away with, v., to suffer Awreak, v., revenge Ayencoming, n., returning Ayenge, prep., against Ayenward, adv., vice versa

Bate, v., hawking, to flutter the wings as if preparing for flight Bays, n., the fruit of the laurel Because, conj., in order that Beclip, v., embrace, enfold Behind forth, adv., from back to front Behooteth, v., advises, gives Behove, v., to be necessary Bernacle, n., a bridle Beshine, v., to illuminate Bisse, n., a second Blemish, v., shrink, blench Blow, v., to obtain lead, etc., from ores in a furnace Boisterous, boystous, adj., thick, strong, solid Bourgeon, v., to bud, burst forth Bray, v., to pound Brock, n., a badger Buck, v., to wash Busily, adv., carefully But, prep., except

Car, n., means or instrument Carfle, v., to pound Carrions, n., corpses Cast, v., to intend Chaffer, n., trade Chine, n., chink, cleft Clarity, n., clearness Clepe, v., call Cliff, n., shore Clue, n., a clew or hank (of yarn) Comfort, v., to strengthen Common, v., to share one's food with others and ayenward Conject, v., conjecture Coverture, n., covering Craftily, adv., skilfully Culvour, n., pigeon Curtel, n,, a kirtle, a short coat, a covering

Deadly, adv., mortal Deeming, n., judgment, opinion Default, n., deficiency Depart, v., to separate, share out Despiteously, adv., contemptuously Detty, adj., generous Disperple, v., to scatter, destroy Do, done, v., to put, to don Doomsman, n., judge Draust, n., dross, impurity

Ear, v., to reap Else, adv., otherwise Enform, v., to make Even tofore, adv., opposite to Expert, adv., tried

Fare, v., to happen Fear, v. a., to frighten Fell, n., an undressed skin Fen, n., clay Fine, n., a boundary Fleet, v., to float, to swim; cf. "to flit" Flux, n., a flow, a catarrh Fore, n., trail, spoor; cf. "foor" Frot, v., to rub Fumous, adj., vaporous, cloudy Fumosity, n., vapour Fundament, n., foundation

Gentle, adj., noble, high-minded Gesses, n., jesses, cords for fastening the legs of a hawk Gete, n., goats Ghastful, adj., frightful Gin, a., machine Glad, v. a., to please Glimy, adj., slimy Gloss, n., the comment on Scripture, compiled in the ninth century from the fathers Glue, n.. any glutinous substance Gnod, v., to rub? Grieve, v., to hurt Grutching, n., growling Gutter, n., drop

Hale, v., to drag Hap, n., chance Hards, hirds, n., tow Haught, part., hatched Heckle, v., to straighten out lint by a coarse comb Hele, v., to cover; cf., heling Hight, v., is called Hoar, adj., feathered

Hop, n., the seed case of the flaxplant Horrible, adj., unpleasant to hear Housebond, n., husband Hovey, part., hovel, cottage Hoving, part., staying

Infect, adj., spotted, injured Intendment, n., understanding

Jape, v., to cry out

Kele, v., to cool Kind, n., nature Kindly, adj., natural; adv., naturally

Langhaldes, n., ropes connecting the fore and hind legs of a horse or cow to stay it from jumping Latten, n., a kind of brass Lea, n., pasture land Lesings, n., untruths Let, v., to hinder Lewd, adj., ignorant Liefer, adv., rather Likelihood, n., resemblance Limb, n., an instrument; cf., "limb of the law" Limbmeal, adv., limb by limb; cf., "piecemeal" List, n., a limit, border Lodesman, n., pilot Lowte, v., to trumpet

Make, n., a mate Manner, adj., manner of, kind of Mawmet, n., an idol or toy Mean, n., intermediary, means Mean, v., to assert, consider Medley, v., to mix Meinie, n., domestics, household Merry, adj., fortunate Meselry, n., leprosy Mess,n., portion Messager, n., messenger Mete, v., measure, apportion Mews, n., originally a place in which hawks were kept "mewed up" Mildness, n., generosity Minish, v., to narrow Mirror, n., seems to have been used only when the surface was curved, the word "shewer" being used for a plane mirror Mistake, v., to take wrongly

Namely, adj., especially Nathless, con., nevertheless Ne, con., nor Needly, adj., necessarily Nerve, n., sinew Nesh, adj., soft Nether, adj., lower Nice, adj., silly, small, trifling Nicely, adv., sillily Nother, con., neither Noyful, adj., noxious, hurtful Noying, n., harm

Ordinate, adj., ordered, prescribed Otherdeal, adv., otherwise Overthwart, adj., crossed over on itself

Passing, adj., surpassing Patent, n., a plate or paten (patine) Pight, adj., put, pitched Powder, n., dust of any kind Pricket, n., a spike used for candlestick, hence a candle Principles, n., indecomposable elements Pure, v.a., to purify Pursueth, v, suiteth?